[Buildroot] [PATCH] linux-firmware: Allow selection of bnx2x fw version

[Joel Stanley]

On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 7:09 PM, Thomas Petazzoni
<thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> I think adding new config to chose between different versions of a
> given firmware is going a bit too far. If we were to do that for all
> firmwares in linux-firmware, it would really increase the number of
> Config.in options too much.

Yeah, I do agree with this concern. It's unfortunate we don't have a
variable we can test to see what the kernel version is.

> Shall I suggest to install both versions of the firmware? The firmware
> files are not that large, and if filesystem size is really a strong
> issue, it is always possible to clean up the non-required firmware
> files in a post-build script.

In our case the extra ~640kB would be worth cleaning up. I like
buildroot for the clean tiny images it produces; I think that's worth
preserving.

The driver was broken for the 2015.11 release, so given no one has
noticed since then, perhaps we should track the correct firmware
versions for BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_LATEST_VERSION?

Cheers,

Joel